César Díaz
11 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Sep 20, 1978 (age 48)
- Place of birth
- Guatemala City, Guatemala
Biography
César Díaz (born 20 September 1978) is a Belgian-Guatemalan film director, screenwriter and editor.
Born and raised in Guatemala City, Díaz moved to Belgium in 1998 as a student at the Free University of Brussels. After developing an interest in filmmaking, he enrolled at the La Fémis film school in Paris and studied screenwriting. Since the mid-2000s, Díaz has worked on a number of documentary films, before making his feature-length debut in 2019 with Our Mothers. The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where Díaz won the Caméra d'Or.
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Our Mothers received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC) and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. It received six nominations at the 10th Magritte Awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Díaz, winning Best First Feature Film.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
César Díaz: movies and TV shows
Acting (1)
- 2023
Behind the camera (11)
- Upcoming Fidelidad
Director
- 2026 Nosotros
Editor
- 2025 Mexico 86
Director, Screenplay
- 2021 1991
Screenplay
- 2020 Chaco
Editor, Writer
- 2019 Our Mothers
Writer, Director
- 2019 When They Left
Editor
- 2019 Tremors
Editor
- 2017 At Home
Editor, Production Director, Producer
- 2015 Ixcanul
Editor
- 2010 Pourquoi les hommes brûlent-ils?
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 2023 Prank or Tank
6 episodes